>>Yes - although to be perfectly fair, in this case I will willingly >>hold up my hand to both. I have grave reservations about the >>engineering value of the building method in question and I >>think the results are a splinter in the eye of the world. :) >>>Well. I usually don't say this in so many words, but I -do- consider >myself mostly conservative--libertarian, actually. >>And that has almost nothing to do with why I think this architect is >barking up the wrong tree.

For that matter, it has almost nothing to do with the thread, since what we were talking about was a matter of aesthetic and/or technical conservatism, nothing whatever to do with social or political values. Which I'd quite like to keep not discussing on these boards.